The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

Gen. Albert Pike, poet, soldier and gran,
commander OF the southern jurisdiction q
Free Masons, lives, at the age OF seventy
seven, in retirement at Washington.
Charles H. Reed. the Chicago lawyer VIII
attained notoriety as counsel OF Guiteau
the assassin Of Garfield, tried to end hi
lille by drowning at Jersey City. Trouble
with creditors compelled him to leave CHI
cargo some time ago, and Of late he ha
been practicing in Jersey City.
Billings Gazette: Last winter Lieut.
Particle OF Fort Keogh, in his correspond
sncs with an Eastern paper, predicted
loss in cattle on the range at fifty per cent
Tor which the press attacked him severely
bnt times has shown that it was fully q
great as he predicted.
Augusta, Ga, has been damaged $50, OO'
by, a flood, which is subsiding. The los
to planters will be very large.
Kansas is suffering from drouth. N,
rain near Parsons since J6ly 4.
The Northern Pacific gives notice OF a re
duction in freight rates, taking effect Aug
l. between st. Paul, Minneapolis, Minneso
to Transfer and Duluth and all points OF
the Northern Pacific west of Granite, Ida
no..
The secretary OF the navy has issued in
structions that the United States steame
Michigan shall be at Detroit on Sept. j.
and 10 to take part in the reunion Of tn
Army OF the Tennessee, and at Chicago
from Oct. 1 to 10 for the military encamp
ment.
The following pensions have been granted
Wisconsin: s. Phillips, Og%densburg; O. A
A. Siensvud, Black Earth; C. label, Alma
p. Eggleston, Now Diggings; +. Gereaw
Chelsea; B. Elton, Boyd; j. F. Talmadge
Evansville; j. Burke, Sparta; Il. Van Ant.
werp, Sparta; A. Kamm, Arthur. Dako.
ia: Minors H. Fox, Bismarck; J. Severe,
jamestown; j. H. McAllister, Freeman.
At New York, John G. Downer shot and
inflicted probably fatal wounds upon Will
lam Byrnes, and shot and killed Daniel
Lehan, who tried to interfere.
Kentucky vent democratic by about
$4,000 majority. The following were elect
ed: Governor, Simon Bolivar, Ruckner;
governor, G. W. Bryan; audi
tor, Fayette Hewitt; treasurer, J. w.
late; attorney general, w. H. Hardin; .su-
public instruction, I'D. Pick.
EFT; land register, Thomas Corbet. ;
,In<south Camden, N. J., William W.
Wiltshire, iftty-two years OF age, and
keeper OF an oyster saloon, shot and killed
his wife Ella, aged forty seven; murdered
Justice OF the Peace William 8. Darr .(col.
ored) and then sent a bullet through his
own brain, dying almost Instantly. =
The Minnesota supreme court reverses
the famous Lac qui Parle county.seat con-
test. 1t also decides that the St. Paul
City Railway company is empowered, by
the act OF 1883 to lay it's tracks upon auy
street in the city.
Ex-Congressman w. D. Washburn OF
Minneapolis is, with his family, at the
United States hotel, Saratoga.
Thomas Tollafsen, a Minneapolis street
cor driver, was murdered by a couple OF
highwaymen who carried off the money
box.
Charles Francis Adams visits st. Paul
and talks about his road, the Union Pacif.
William A. Pinkerton, manager OF the
Western division and the general Office of
Pinkerton's, detective agency, is in st.
Paul for the purpose OF establishing the
branch office in st. Paul, which is to be
und Or the SUPPLEMENTARY of W.: J.. Lead
er has been fourteen years in the New York
office and two years in the Philadelphia
office, and is familiar with the Pinkertons'
work.
Adjt. Gen. Seeley has published an order
at the Fort Smelling camp declaring that
u SAaiAilluS DotFu oi iOuf OIucerS OF as
high a rank as the exigencies of the service
will permit, shall convene ut headquarters
as often as req uired for tho examination
OF such persons as have been elected, but
not yet commissioned as officers in the
national guard.
The secretary OF the navy has awarded
the contract for constructing new dry
docks at the New York and Norfolk navy
yards to j. E. Simpson & Co., ofNew York,
for 81, O61, $50.
The Hon. George S. Peters, United States
attorney for Utah Territory, has since his
return forwarded to Salt Lake City the
necessary papers to bring suit against the
Mormon church in behalf of the United
States under the Edmunds. Tucker law OF
this year. which provides that no church
in any territory shall own more than $50.
900 worth OF property. The Church OF
Jesust Christ, Latter Day Saints, is aimed
at, and the suit just filed seeks to disincor.
porate that institution.
A terrible famine ~prevailes on the 18TH
mus Of Panama.
An election was held in the Bridgeton
division Of Glasgow, to fill tho seat made
vacant by the resignation of e. r. Russell,
a Home Rule Liberal. The election result
ed in the return OF Sir George Otto Trey.
leyan, the Liberal candidate. Sir Georges
victory is felt in Conservative. circles to be
the severest blow tho Unionist cause has
yet experienced.
Secretary Lamar is wearing trousers
made of cotton cloth woven in Louisiana.
1t costs $40 q yard.
Postmasters commissioned Minneso-
ta-Tintah, w. Brothers. Wisconsin-Ash.
ford, H. j. Mueller; Colgate. A. Ennis;
Fr~iendswood, E. Bross; Symco, I. Scanton.
Fourth-class postmaster appointed-Min-
nesota: Green Isle, 7. Bo]and.
The annual report Of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway shows a large in
freight handled. The increase In gross
earnings was over 81. 1000, 900. The great
increase in earnings. was in freight, which
returned s19, 329,4s3, or 81, s26, 239 more
than in the previous year, all OF which re-
suited from increased traffic, che rates be-
ing slightly lower than in the previous
year. One Of THE principal points shown
is that the company had on May 81 q cash
surplus Of nearly So, 100000 aiter,provid.
ing for all payments Up to June rs.
At Honor Mich. George shot@his wife
twice, the first time in front OF the right
ear, the second time In the ear, and after
she fell he ran behind Mrs. D. P: Hatch,
his mother-in-law, and shot. her, the bullet
entering the back of the left ea-, but not
piercing the skull. Shesiell, andhe suppos.
ing he: had killed her SHOT himself, the bal
entering. on the. right side OF the head and
passing entirely through it. Burton and
his wife parted, and she had instituted
proceedings for divorce. 2
1t is reported that H. A. Taylor OF Hud,
son closed q deal with the Laird-Nortor
company of Winona. and sold them $50.
600 worth Of pine lands in North Wiscon.
sin. ,
At Austin, as Ole Void, an employe Q!
pond he got beyond his depth and cried iol
help John Lukens, aged Twenty-Five